The Man Who Pays His Way: The closest experience I have had to the airlineas premium seating is in a dentistas chair

Santorini is now virtually empty

The activity has led to a significant exodus of residents and tourists

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end was seen wearing an Amiri Fall 2025 runway suit

The NFL fanbase that consumed the most amount of alcohol drank an average of 3.8 drinks during the game

Research suggests more studies need to be done about ice baths to understand the benefits

aTop Geara star opened up about dealing with atremendous griefa

Bacteria, fungi and viruses have been found everywhere

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are battling it out tonight

Ad space was in high demand this year, according to the Fox Sports executive vice president of ad sales

The Chiefs tight end and pop star have been dating since 2023

The aNot Like Usa singer and his partner first met when they were in high school

Kelceas Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles in this yearas Super Bowl

Last year, Swift brought Ice Spice, Lana Del Rey, and Blake Lively with her to the Super Bowl

A full timeline of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelceas relationship, as Kansas City Chiefs head to the 2025 Super Bowl

Grammy-winning rapper is set to make his return to the Super Bowl halftime stage on February 9

Lively joined Swift in her suite at last yearas Super Bowl

Sanjeev Bhaskar and SinA(c)ad Keenan are faced with another cold case, in a crime-show formula thatas a gift that keeps on giving

Jack Rookeas coming-of-age story has reached its conclusion. We will miss this brilliant sitcom, which always acknowledges, head on, how irreparably messy life can be

The Grammy-winning rapperas performance earnings, or lack thereof, might come as a shock

Former Take That singer said he views late comedian as an auncle of sortsa

aI will be lost without him,a ITV skater"s co-star said

aUniversal Soldiera singer addressed ahurtful allegationsa questioning her claims of Indigenous ancestry in 2023

aHis sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews,a the aFriendsa star said

Itas just as good a if not better than a aLuthera and aLine of Dutya

Presenter went silent on social media hiatus in November following allegations of inappropriate behaviour

aKnocked Upa director took aim at those whoad voted for US president

aItas not so bad if they put their hands up and admit they made a mistake,a aClarksonas Farma star said

One fan said their adreams have been crusheda after Ticketmaster accused them of being bots

aIam actually going to get emotional,a the aWedding Crashersa star said while reflecting on tough year

BBC showas 2024 winner offered rare thoughts on the subject

aMy principle doesnat just apply to perfect people with perfect lives,a TV adventurer said

aItas not appropriate to do that in front of women,a TV personality said

The revered solo artist tells Hannah Ewens why she decided to start a band, which of her own songs still makes her cry, and why she"s had atough conversationsa about Trump with friends and family

As Kendrick Lamaras much-anticipated performance at this yearas Super Bowl approaches, Kevin E G Perry rates the rapperas albums to date

Kendrick Lamar is headlining the coveted halftime show in New Orleans this weekend

When author Elizabeth Lovatt began digging through the Finsbury library archive, she didnat expect to uncover a world of anonymous lesbian helpline call logs. She tells Zoya Raza-Sheikh about the womenas real-life stories that were shared with the Lesbian Line

Ex-Foreign Office official says he saw conduct that acrossed the threshold into complicity with war crimesa

• Mark Smith: I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. Thatas why I quit the UK Foreign Office

Britainas system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, a former UK diplomat has claimed.

Writing for the Guardian, Mark Smith, who resigned from the Foreign Office in August, said officials were instructed to manipulate findings on the misuse of UK arms by allies, and if they did not do so, their reports were edited by senior colleagues to give the impression that the UK was in compliance with the law.

MP apologises for messages posted in same group chat Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister over

The Burnley MP Oliver Ryan is being investigated by the Labour party over aunacceptable and deeply disappointinga comments in a WhatsApp group.

Ryan said he was a member of the WhatsApp chat that MP Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister over and apologised for some of his own comments awhich I deeply regret and would not make todaya.

An Israeli soldier broke the news to Eli Sharabi on Saturday, after almost 500 days in captivity

The freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi did not know his wife and two teenage daughters were killed in the 7 October attack until after his release, his British family have confirmed.

An Israeli soldier broke the news about what had happened to his wife, Lianne, who grew up near Bristol, and their two British-Israeli children Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, after Sharabi and two other hostages were released by Hamas in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday.

President targets education department and military in pre-Super Bowl chat and repeats wish for Canada to be 51st state

Donald Trump said that he expects Elon Musk to find abillionsa of dollars of abuse and fraud in the Pentagon during an interview with Fox Newsas Bret Baier that aired before the Super Bowl on Sunday.

aIam going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. ... Then Iam going to go, go to the military. Letas check the military,a the US president told the host from the rightwing Fox News, adding: aWeare going to find billions, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse.a

Singer was due to perform Sunday night but authorities worried large blockage could cause sewage to back up in venue toilets

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An enormous fatberg in central Perth has forced a Bryan Adams concert to be cancelled after authorities raised concerns that sewage may back up at the venueas toilets.

Adams was due to perform at the Western Australian capitalas RAC Arena on Sunday night, but the cityas water corporation said a alarge blockage of fat, grease and ragsa was causing wastewater overflows at nearby properties, prompting authorities to intervene.

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Open panic has yet to set in but MPs voice growing fears over leaderas approach and threat from Reform UK

On Monday, it will be 100 days since Kemi Badenoch became the leader of a demoralised rump of 121 Conservative MPs. So, at this traditional moment for gauging initial success, how well is she doing? It depends, perhaps inevitably, on how you measure it.

aWhat you have to remember is that for the first 18 or so months after you lose an election, especially as badly as we did, no one cares what you do,a one Tory MP said. aFrom that point of view, Kemias caution in not rushing into policies makes sense. No one is listening yet. She has time.a

Corruption in Mexico is a problem, experts say, but any claim the two are linked shows a lack of comprehension

Mexico breathed a sigh of relief this week when Donald Trump delayed his threatened tariffs by a month, apparently swerving away from an economic crisis at the last moment.

But one aspect of the spat still rankles: the Trump administrationas vague but shocking accusation of an aintolerable alliancea between Mexicoas government and organised crime.

This beloved cold-case drama still has a dry sense of humour, but its attempt to wade into the culture wars was not a good idea. Its tackling of politics is starting to feel very ham-fisted

For five series, Unforgotten was my go-to comfort television. Yes, the crime drama is always about a grisly murder, and every season begins with the gruesome discovery of remains that have been buried for years or even decades. And yes, there are plenty of scenes with body parts laid out on mortuary tables, being picked over by pathologists who say things such as, athis artery does show signs of gapinga, as if theyave just won the lottery. But in its combination of strong casts, ample twists and the inevitable dispensation of justice, it always felt soothing, somehow. It is occasionally workmanlike, but reliably solid.

As it reaches its sixth season, though, I worry that the wheels are coming off. The structure is largely the same every time a another reason it is so comforting, perhaps a and this seems to be no different. A body is discovered, it turns out to be a cold case, so it reaches the desks of the friendly, efficient and only mildly troubled cops we know and love. It throws a handful of suspects into the air and dares you to guess how these people could possibly be connected, then it waits for them to come crashing down to earth, as the pieces finally slot into place. It sprinkles it all with a touch of concern for the private lives of the detectives, and kicks back in nice, fancy kitchens as it works out whodunnit and why.

Local authorities urged to intervene earlier and charity preparing to launch dedicated support group

aI donat remember ever having had a home-cooked meal,a says Richard, crunching over the food wrappers and crushed cardboard boxes that cover his motheras kitchen floor.

He glances at the broken cooker, cracked microwave and windows blocked by piles of unwashed mugs, some inexplicably tightly wrapped in cellophane. There are no clear surfaces. Blackened, disintegrating cabinets sag under yet more wreckage. Not an inch of floor can be seen.

Protesters in Colorado express solidarity with the undocumented after dramatic raids throughout Denver

Thousands took to the streets on Wednesday and Saturday last week following a series of dramatic raids by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) throughout Denver as protesters expressed solidarity with the undocumented and rage at Donald Trumpas war on immigrants.

aWeare here to fight for our neighbors, to stand together and say no to the threats from the Trump administration,a Amanda Starks, a local artist at a rally on Saturday whoas been handing out literature to immigrants on their legal rights.

From jokes about Tesco meal deals to depictions of lifeas most precious moments, Jack Rookeas semi-fictionalisation of his student years is back for the final time. Itas a beautiful, heartbreaking watch

The last episode of Big Boys finished on a note of almost transcendent devastation. From the very beginning, this tale of male bonding and sexual expedition a inspired by the comedian Jack Rookeas university days a existed in the shadow of grief. The first thing we learn about Jack, our semi-fictional protagonist, is that his dad, Laurie, died when Jack was a teenager. Loss hovered over the showas chronicle of the sensitive, sheltered Jackas student scrapes, as he formed an unlikely friendship with his laddish, socially assured roommate Danny while struggling to find his feet in Brent unias gay scene.

Yet it wasnat until the final instalment of series two that we were thrown headlong into Jackas grief. When his motormouth cousin Shannon goes into labour with her first child, the family are transported, physically and psychologically, back to the place where Laurie died. By intercutting the farcical birth scene a inappropriate midwives, urgent demands for Peperami Firesticks�a with gut-wrenching flashbacks to Laurieas final days, Big Boys was able to do what it does best: splice ferocious sadness with snippets of sweet, mildly profane comic relief, and capture life at its most precious and prosaic.

Julie LaaBassiere returns to the London borough she grew up in, to create a space that encapsulates her world

Swapping the sidewalks of Brooklyn for the leafy streets of Wandsworth in south London might seem like an abrupt gear change. But for leading film and TV publicity and awards strategist Julie LaaBassiere, it made complete sense. Julie is British-born but moved to the US with her mother when she was a child and had been based there ever since. That was, until 2021, when she found herself living through a particularly ugly point in American history. aBetween the Covid lockdowns, George Floyd and Trump, it wasa| a lot. I realised it was time to come home.a

Julie did consider other areas of London, but kept finding herself drawn back to the neighbourhood where she lived until the age of eight, which was where her grandparents had settled when they came to London as part of the Windrush generation in the 1960s. aMy grandparents were incredibly special to me and I have many warm memories of being looked after by them when my mother was at work,a she remembers. When Julie was collected from school by her grandfather, a bonus was that he drove an old Bentley. aIt must have been in the year of the Queenas Silver Jubilee, 1977, because I took to sitting on the back seat and giving my classmates what I called my aroyal waveaa|a

If you can find a workout you always look forward to, youare far more likely to stick with it and keep fitter for longer. Trainers give their pointers a and pitfalls

Only an idiot would claim to love every form of exercise. At 61, I believe itas the only way to delay the bodyas slow crumble, but ugh, so much of it is unpleasant, or dull, or just not for me. I donat think I will ever not hate Bulgarian split squats. Iam bored to tears by the static bike. Football, rugby, tennis, cricket? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.

But thatas OK, because thereas a lot that I adore. Running. Lake swims. Yoga. Skiing, snowshoeing, anything snow-related. Just bloody walking! And above all, calisthenics a dangling from gymnastics rings, standing on my hands, trying to hoist and fold and balance myself in ways that demand far more strength and control than I can usually muster. I will never be cool, but acalia is.

Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them

• Britainas system for controlling arms exports is broken, former diplomat claims

My name is Mark Smith. I am a former diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). I spent my career working in the Middle East directorate and serving in the Arab world. As a lead officer on arms sales policy, I was responsible for assessing whether the UK governmentas arms sales adhered to legal and ethical standards under domestic and international law.

In August 2024, I resigned over the UK governmentas refusal to halt arms sales to Israel amid the bombardment of Gaza. This decision followed over a year of internal lobbying and whistleblowing. My resignation made headlines, and weeks later, the new Labour government announced it would finally suspend arms sales to Israel. While this was welcome, it came far too late. Israel has continued to commit atrocities in Gaza as the UK stands by, unwilling to act.

Mark Smith is a former Foreign Office policy adviser

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In power, Labouras agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isnat falling for it

aKeir doesnat engage in the political process. He got this far by not expressing any political opinions a| Heas good with people, but he doesnat debate big ideas.a

After 200 pages of a compelling new book about the Labour partyas return to power, the story falls into a run of these quotations. Get In, by the Westminster journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, makes it clear that after he became the Labour leader, Keir Starmer developed an incredible ruthlessness. Casting him as the kind of operator who ought to be renowned for the trail of human wreckage they leave in their wake, the book highlights the amany people whose careers have come to a brutal end at Starmeras remorseless handa. His readiness to behave like that, however, does not come from any ideological zeal, but rather its opposite: an absence of convictions and ideals that means he can shape-shift a and dispatch colleagues and allies a with a blithe ease.

I believe a case brought by an NHS nurse over a shared changing room could be the tip of the iceberg

Some things are plain common sense. Female employees should not be expected to share changing rooms with male colleagues. They shouldnat be socially shamed into undressing around them, or being in spaces where male colleagues get undressed in front of them.

There is a host of principles and evidence around womenas privacy, dignity and safety to be marshalled in support of this a the charity Sex Matters lays them out a but most people donat need to read accounts of how uncomfortable mixed-sex changing facilities make some women feel, or statistics showing that voyeurism and exposure are two of the most common male sex crimes, to understand how wrong this would be.

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Scrapping two-child benefit cap is among levers Rachel Reeves could pull a yet chancellor remains silent on ashamefula levels of poverty

aMany of us had moments when we felt overwhelmed in sharing our stories. However, we pushed through, with the hope of changing policies that will improve the living standards of the many families living on low incomes who struggle in silence.a

Tayyaba Siddiqui was one of a group of parents and carers who sat around a table in Downing Street last month with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, and the employment minister Alison McGovern to discuss the challenges of raising children in poverty a and what needs to change.

The US president has recognised something that is rarely acknowledged: monetary policy is political. The question is how to make it democratic

If I asked you to list the things that make democratic politics meaningful, what would you include? Most likely elections and education. Perhaps the NHS, or the armed forces, or the justice system. Iam guessing that interest rates didnat come to mind, which is strange, because theyare crucial to democracy. Last week, Donald Trump reignited a debate about who should be in charge of the monetary system that controls a countryas interest rates. You may disagree with Trump on a lot of things, but heas not wrong to recognise that monetary policy a a subject that can seem dull and horribly technical a is fundamentally political, and tells us a lot about democracy.

Interest rates shape everything. They influence whether you can buy a house, and how many houses get built. They affect which businesses expand, what new technologies emerge, and which towns thrive or flounder. In the 1990s, central bankers hailed the agreat moderationa, a period of low and stable prices dominated by central bank independence. Then came the financial crisis, the eurozone crisis, and then the pandemic. The giant bailouts that followed these events were often described as aunconventionala. But perhaps they simply uncovered a fact that was always there a that monetary policy is not as apolitical as some would like people to believe.

Leah Downey is a junior research fellow at St Johnas College Cambridge and the author of Our Money

Older people donat want to get married; youngsters arenat dating. But maybe thereas more to life than being in a couple

Sorry, Valentineas Day is cancelled: weare in a relationship recession. Analysis of demographic data by the Financial Times shows a dramatic decline in married or cohabiting young adults, with tanking arelationship formationa rates in countries as diverse as Thailand, Finland, Peru, South Korea and Turkey. In the US, the marriage rate fell by 54% between 1900 and 2022, while younger people arenat even dating: the percentage of 16- to 18-year-olds who report having dated has dipped under 50%, the Atlantic reports, awith the decline particularly steep in the past few yearsa.

My immediate thought is: well, obviously. The resurgence of the far right, accelerating climate collapse, geopolitical instability and deep economic precarity arenat exactly Marvin-Gaye-and-oysters vibes. As relationship red flags go, isnat getting horny amid imminent global catastrophe one of the biggest, reddest ones? I�just�have to imagine Elon Musk and Iam ready to be walled up in�an�anchoriteas cell.

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In prison, Alaa taught me the power of this form of resistance. His mother, Laila Soueif, and I have used it to challenge Downing Street

Alaa Abd el-Fattah knows about hunger strikes. When I was locked up in a cell next to him in Cairoas notorious Tora prison in early 2014, he and I would stride the exercise yard discussing Egyptian politics, history, political reform, and a yes a forms of protest and resistance, including starving yourself.

Hunger strikes, he explained, are the ultimate tool of the powerless. When all other forms of agency are stripped away, all that remains is to exercise control over the one thing left: your own body. That would become my first lesson in strikes.

The problem is getting worse, while the last governmentas strategy was ineffective. Ministers should go back to basics

For anyone involved in the governmentas strategy to combat violence against women, the National Audit Officeas recent report must have felt like a bucket of cold water. This is a societal problem that plenty of evidence suggests is getting worse rather than better a though inconsistent data is itself a challenge and makes firm conclusions tricky.

The prevalence of sexual assault against women in England and Wales is estimated to have risen from 3.4% of the population to 4.3% between 2009a10 and 2023a24. Over the same period the number of reported�rapes and sexual assaults rose around fourfold a a change only partly explained by improved recording. Violence against women and girls now accounts for about 20% of all crime, despite an estimated reduction in the prevalence of domestic violence (from 9.2% to 7.4%). Digital technology has�created opportunities for�new kinds of offending a�and left lawmakers struggling to keep up.

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Base rate cuts may ease borrowing costs but without stronger public spending and targeted tax relief, economic stagnation will persist

aIt will be welcome news to many that we have been able to cut interest rates again,a said Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England governor, last week. Plenty of mortgage holders would agree. Savers might not share Mr Baileyas sentiments. However, he justified the cut, made despite inflationary risks, by arguing that falling worker bargaining power would see price pressures subside. Without rate cuts, the Bank warned, there was�the risk of anaemic economic growth.

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, backed the Bank, saying its action would aease cost of living pressuresa. That is true, but the benefits of lowering the burden of borrowing wonat outweigh the costs of Ms Reevesa fiscal choices. She is counting on up to six base rate cuts by mid-2026 to buoy consumer sentiment. But relying solely on monetary policy is not effective economic management.

Readers respond to an editorial on the politics of class and culture wars

In your editorial (The Guardian view on class politics: it has faded as culture wars have risen, 5 February), you wrote about politicians who atreat class as a matter of culture rather than economics, about tastes and traditions rather than where you sit in relation to powera. I�suspect the reality is the other way round, that it is not your culture which defines your class, but your class (however imperfect and shifting the definition may be) that defines your culture, or at least some aspects of it.

When we encounter institutional racism, misogyny, Islamophobia and so on in the police or the armed forces, we should ask whether those views were created in people by the organisationas culture, or was the culture created by people who already had those views when they joined. If there is a problem with such prejudices being common in the class from which rank-and-file members of those organisations are predominantly drawn, we must recognise that and address it there, or we will never mend the organisations. If someone joining the police at 18 is a�racist, itas already too late.
Mike Perry
Ickenham, London

Trump and US democratic deficit | Report cards | Train strain | Muskas brain power | Prostate cancer anxiety

Scandalous as Donald Trumpas actions may be, they do not constitute the greatest scandal (Trumpas foreign aid cuts could be abig strategic mistakea, says Lammy, 7 February). That lies rather in the fact that a system purporting to display democracy to the world allows so much power to be concentrated in one individualas hands. The eventual departure of the individual person will do nothing�to rectify that colossal democratic deficit.
Keith Graham
Emeritus professor of social and political philosophy, Bristol

aC/ aRobert works hard, not always�with successa, a Cardiff secondary school teacher once wrote on my report (Letters, 6 February). Another noted that my essays awould be improved with the inclusion of factsa. Fair�play.
Rob Skinner
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire

• Liverpool manager rests senior players for later in season
• Muslicas abiggest moment yet to comea in league survival

Arne Slot defended his team selection after a weakened Liverpool lineup was turfed out of the FA Cup by Plymouth Argyle. Despite a shock 1-0 defeat against the Championshipas bottom club, Slot argued that his decision to give senior players a rest would pay dividends later in the season.

Slot made 10 changes from the win against Tottenham on Thursday night, with a relatively inexperienced bench and players such as Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk left out of the squad entirely.

• Injury-hit side beaten 2-1 in fourth round at Villa Park
• aThe players are tired. They have been outstandinga

Ange Postecoglou made a Apassionate defence of his Ainjuryaravaged ATottenham squad after their 2-1 FA�Cup exit at Aston Villa, Aarguing that no team could have survived the same level of absentees for such a prolonged period.

Postecoglou was without 11 Asenior players at Villa Park, where he started with four teenagers and the 21ayearaold goalkeeper Antonio AKinsky, who was at fault for Jacob Ramseyas opening goal. Morgan Rogers put Villa 2-0 in front before Mathys Telas injury-time consolation.

• 2nd ODI: India, 308-6, bt England, 304, by four wkts
• India captain clinches series with 49th international hundred

England will enter the Champions Trophy this month after four consecutive one-day international series defeats, their latest confirmed by the relentless blade of Rohit Sharma.

Questions about Sharmaas future have piled up in recent weeks, as would be the case for any 37ayearaold player out of nick. But a one-day series at home is a radically difAferent challenge to a Test tour of Australia, and the aura of a white-ball king remains. Sharma struck a 90aball 119, his 49th international hundred, as India hunted down a target of 305�in Cuttack with four wickets and 5.3�overs to spare.

• Both players could return for business end of tournament
• England beat France on Saturday to get back in title hunt

England are hopeful George Furbank and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso will be back for the business end of the Six Nations campaign to bolster their title push after keeping their hopes alive with victory against France.

The Northampton full-back AFurbank has been out of action since December with a broken arm while Feyi-Waboso is nursing a shoulder injury and both were considered in danger of missing out on the entire championship. But after the lastagasp win on Saturday kickastarted Englandas campaign Steve Borthwick revealed both Aplayers could yet return for his sideas run-in.

• British No 2 beaten by Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3, 7-5
• Player never lost more than three matches in a row before

Emma Raducanuas struggles continued as she suffered a fourth straight loss for the first time in her career.

Raducanu began her season with victory over Russiaas Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round of the Australian Open but could not repeat the feat at the Qatar Open in Doha. A 6-3, 7-5 loss to Alexandrova followed first-round defeats by Marketa Vondrousova in Abu Dhabi and Cristina Bucsa in Singapore as well as a third-round defeat by Iga Swiatek in Melbourne.

• Scotland 18-32 Ireland
• Finn Russell forced off early after clash of heads

The song remains the same for Scotland. The sound of bagpipes had drifted around Murrayfield, Flower of Scotland was belted out with customary passion, and the inspirational figure of Chris Hoy even delivered the match ball. But when showtime arrived Ireland were simply too good, too physical, too precise. The reigning champions recorded an 11th straight victory over Scotland to top the table with two bonus-point wins, pleasingly poised for a third successive title.

There had been a sense of triumph in the way Hoy, diagnosed with terminal cancer last year, strode on to the pitch for an emotional pre-match ovation. Hope existed among home fans that this might, finally, be their day against Ireland. And while there were flashes of brilliance, particularly Duhan van der Merweas stunning finish before half-time, Scotlandas back line is not complemented by a pack that can compete with the best.

• Three goals and red card for BarASSa in second half
• McTominay scores but Napoli held 1-1 at home

Barcelona earned a hard-fought 4-1 win at struggling Sevilla on Sunday thanks to goals by Robert Lewandowski, FermAn LA3pez, Raphinha and Eric GarcAa to edge them closer to the top of the table.

The win lifted third-placed BarASSa to 48 points, one behind AtlA(c)tico Madrid and two adrift of leaders Real Madrid after the capital rivals drew 1-1 on Saturday.
Lewandowski gave BarASSa the lead from close range in the seventh minute but RubA(c)n Vargas hit right back to equalise for the home side from a quick counter one minute later.

• Clubas record scorer nets in 3-1 win against Leicester
• Chelsea through to last eight with 4-1 rout of Everton

Khadija Shaw made her return to action for Manchester City, scoring their third goal in a 3-1 win against Leicester, after she sat out their midweek League Cup semi-final against Arsenal to protect her mental wellbeing after racist and misogynistic abuse received online.

City released a statement on Tuesday condemning the abuse of their record goalscorer after Cityas 4-3 defeat by Arsenal in the Womenas Super League last weekend and announcing it was being investigated. On Thursday night it was confirmed Shaw had withdrawn from the squad for the League Cup tie against Arsenal.

An investigation found the pair had no case to answer and that the trust had breached its own disciplinary policy

Two NHS professionals were investigated and barred from their workplace for expressing interest in organising a peaceful protest in support of Palestine during their lunch break.

The therapist and nurse were accused of posing a threat to the apersonal safetya of the staff at Kensington and Chelsea child and adolescent mental health service, and of abringing the trust into disreputea for considering the demonstration.

Misconduct hearing found Tyler Coppin had breached standards of professional behaviour over offence

An Essex police officer has been sacked after admitting atragedy chantinga at Liverpool fans during a Premier League match last year.

Essex police instigated misconduct proceedings against Sgt Tyler Coppin after he pleaded guilty to the public order offence during the Liverpool game against Chelsea at Anfield last October.

Synod was asked to bring in alternatives for Eucharist, but says believers can still take part without consuming both

Itas the ancient ritual that unites millions of Christians in faith a but the Church of England is facing accusations that holy communion excludes non-drinkers or worshippers with dietary intolerances.

C of E guidance determines the type of bread and wine that can be consecrated as part of the Eucharist ritual, which symbolises Jesus Christas sacrifice, death and resurrection and commemorates the Last Supper.

Conservation groups say University of Wolverhamptonas proposals overlook historical significance of art school

Artists and conservation groups have decried the airresponsiblea plan to tear down a brutalist arts tower at a Midlands university, saying the proposed redevelopment is overlooking the amassive historical significancea of the structure.

The University of Wolverhampton has earmarked the nine-storey School of Art, which is also known as the George Wallis building, for demolition as part of a aradicala expansion proposal. But it has faced opposition from the Twentieth Century Society, which has submitted a listing application to Historic England that could prevent its destruction.

Stuart Machin also speculates about whether successive governments have been guilty of asnobberya towards retail

The chief executive of Marks & Spencer has called on the UK government to delay or ease planned tax and recycling charges, claiming the retail industry is being araided like a piggy banka.

Stuart Machin said that without pausing or staggering the changes to national insurance and business rates, which come into effect this April, UK retail would get smaller. He also speculated on whether successive governments were guilty of a asnobberya about retail.

Review into accountability soon to report as police seek greater protection from prosecution over use of force

Police want changes to the law giving them aa licence to killa, leading rights groups have warned as the government prepares to give officers new protections from prosecution.

A government-ordered review into police accountability is expected to report within weeks. It followed fears of a walkout by angry armed officers in London after a police marksman, Martyn Blake, was tried for murder over the shooting of Chris Kaba. Blake was acquitted in October by a jury in three hours.

CEO has anarrow windowa to come up with positive shift in strategy to win back investor confidence, say analysts

When BPas board faces shareholders at the oil companyas investor day later this month, there will be many questions to answer, and for many, the biggest one will be: how did things go so wrong?

The FTSE 100 company was once valued at more than APS140bn, but today its shares trade at a market valuation of less than half that sum. BP has lost almost a quarter of its value in the past two years, while its rivals in Europe and the US have managed to grow and in some cases report record annual profits.

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers

More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal.

Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma a now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer a an analysis by the World Health Organizationas cancer agency found.

Deputy PM acknowledged there wasnat aa consensusa over future of tower block after her decision to dismantle it

Angela Rayner has defended her handling of a meeting with bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell disaster after some said they felt ignored by her decision to tear down the tower.

The deputy prime minister did not feel she had been aaggressivea during the meeting on the future of the site, she said, despite criticism from some of those present. aIf anyone felt that way, then I would be sincerely upset about that,a she added.

Israel says it will not agree to full withdrawal until Hamasas military and political capabilities have been eliminated

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Israeli forces have withdrawn from the strategic corridor that divides northern and southern Gaza, as part of a ceasefire plan that has brought a fragile pause to the 16-month war.

On Sunday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas officials confirmed that the Israeli military had withdrawn from the Netzarim corridor, the 4-mile (6km) strip of land that Israel set up within weeks of the war and used as a military zone during the fighting.

Humanitarian groups worried north-east Syrian camps holding suspected IS members will lose basic facilities

Kurdish officials have warned of an Islamic State resurgence if US foreign aid cuts take effect on Monday, which would cripple essential services for tens of thousands of people detained in tented camps in north-east Syria, including suspected members of IS and their families.

Blumont, a Virginia-based humanitarian aid group responsible for the management of two of Syriaas IS detention camps, al-Hol and al-Roj, was given a stop-work order on 24 January by the US state department. The sudden cessation of services prompted panic in the camps after aid workers failed to turn up for work.

Voters who have become victims of crime wave linked to cocaine trade will determine outcome of presidential election

Ecuadorians are voting in a presidential election that has shaped up to be a repeat of the 2023 race, when they chose a young, conservative millionaire over the former leftist presidentas protege.

Luisa GonzA!lez and the incumbent, Daniel Noboa, are the clear frontrunners in the pool of 16 candidates. All have promised to reduce the widespread crime that pushed the country into an unnerving new normal four years ago.

Russell Vought is now acting head of CFPB, created in wake of 2008 financial crash to supervise financial companies

Russell Vought, Donald Trumpas newly installed acting head of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced on Saturday he had cut off the agencyas budget and reportedly instructed staff to suspend all activities including the supervision of companies overseen by the agency.

Reuters and NBC News reported that Vought wrote a memo to employees saying he had taken on the role of acting head of the agency, an independent watchdog that was founded in 2011 as an arm of the Federal Reserve to promote fairness in the financial sector.

Three men taken to hospital, two with serious injuries, after incident in Stoneybatter neighbourhood

A man has been arrested after three people were injured in a suspected knife attack that has left a Dublin neighbourhood in aa state of shocka.

Irish police said they were responding to a serious incident after about 3pm on Sunday.

Charismatic father of the nation led the fight for independence from South Africa and ruled for 15 years as the countryas first president

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died aged 95.

Nujomaas death was announced Sunday by current Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba. Mbumba said Nujoma died on Saturday night after being hospitalised in the capital, Windhoek.

The group of five workers were greeted at Bangkok airport by overjoyed family members and officials after being held for over a year in Gaza

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The families of five Thai farm workers held hostage in Gaza for over a year wept with joy and hugged their loved ones as they arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.

The group smiled as they walked into the arrivals hall at Bangkokas Suvarnabhumi airport after being freed on 30 January as part of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the Israel-Gaza war.

Singer says he cried ahappy, childlike tearsa after placing winning bid on late comedianas glasses and pipe at auction

Robbie Williams has said he bought Eric Morecambeas glasses for APS20,000 at auction as the comedian was an auncle of sortsa whose aspirit has been salve for my soula.

The singer said he cried ahappy, childlike tearsa after winning the bidding war last month with a final offer far exceeding the APS2,000 to APS4,000 estimate.

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Tim Foleyas beautifully lyrical script sees two brothers thrashing out their differing memories of a dying father in a drama full of truth, sadness and beauty

Two grieving brothers come together on a beach to thrash out their differing memories of a father who lies dying at home. Mark (James Westphal) is the older, estranged, gay brother who has made a successful life elsewhere while Tiny (Jerome Yates) has never left their faded home town in Hartlepool.

We only ever see them coming together on the sands of Seaton Carew, to the cries of gulls and surge of water around them. Tiny feels an elemental connection to this sea and land, believing in its local mythologies, while Mark only sees its merciless qualities.

In a world first, the actor will feature with a recording of his younger self in the time-lapse drama Krappas Last Tape

When it comes to forward planning, a new arts festival is going well beyond normal expectations.

The organisers of the Beckett Biennale, which from next year will celebrate the great Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, are this weekend naming the actor who is signed up to star in a 2036 production of Krappas Last Tape at their sixth festival. And, in a unique coup de thA(c)AC/tre, Samuel West will be giving a performance that he has already partially recorded: in fact, he did it 19 years ago.

Christos Papadopoulos took the award for his glacially paced, illusory Larsen C, beating a shortlist that largely eschewed traditional formal techniques and structures
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The winner of the inaugural Rose International prize was announced on Saturday night. The new biennial competition with a APS40,000 bounty for the victor is initially guaranteed to run for 10 editions, by which time it hopes to be on a par with the Booker or Turner prizes, boosting danceas profile accordingly. It was Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos who took home the honour (and a cool Es Devlin-designed trophy) for his piece Larsen C, chosen by an eclectic judging panel, with Christopher Bannerman and Arlene Phillips from the dance world, musician PJ Harvey and poet Karthika NaA-r. (There was also APS15,000 awarded to an early-career choreographer in the Bloom prize, won by Stav Struz Boutrous.)

Papadopoulos is pretty much unknown in the UK, but a darling of the Greek dance scene whoas toured widely in Europe. Larsen C may have been the most divisive piece in the contest. The title refers to an Antarctic ice shelf, and the dance does indeed move at glacial pace, with small, repetitive movements that drove some viewers to distraction (itas rare to hear a abooa in a polite dance theatre). It was inspired, the choreographer has said, by how your perception of something can completely alter when the smallest element is changed. Thereas an element of illusion that canat help call to mind Papadopoulosas compatriot Dimitris Papaioannou, as bodies disappear into the blackness of the stage and flashes of flesh appear, looking like truncated arms or extra limbs a the dancersa feet in shadow making them seem as if theyare gliding soundlessly. Thereas beautiful movement here, boneless limbs like drifting tentacles, as mysterious as the creatures in the depths of the Mariana Trench.

The Nobel prize-winneras strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

When Han Kang published her International Booker-winning The Vegetarian (2015), translated by Deborah Smith, about a South Korean housewife who gives up meat and wants to become a tree, the novel slotted into a wave of English-language fiction about female appetites and male control. But the books that came next were harder to pin down. After Human Acts, about the 1980 massacre of student protesters in Hanas native Gwangju, came The White Book, in which a Han-like novelist reflects on the death of her baby sister while musing on wartime Warsaw. Then came 2023as Greek Lessons, riddling to the point of opacity, about a divorced poetas inability to communicate.

We Do Not Part, Hanas first novel to be translated since winning the Nobel prize for literature last year, has elements of all these books. Stark as well as ethereal, chronologically discontinuous, full of nested narratives a often structured as remembered conversations about remembered conversations a it exhumes historical horror but also swerves into hallucinatory magic realism without breaking the plausibly autofictional frame with which it begins.

From a 13th-century Yemen brew to the latest full-on blast of beans, the quest for the perfect caffeine hit continues

When a man called Jacob opened whatas thought to be the first British coffee house in Oxford in 1650, he cannot possibly have known what he was starting. Then, as now, coffee was fashionable. In France, which had beaten Britain in the race to bring the drink to western Europe, people were dazzled by the Turkish ambassadoras parties, at which he once served Isaac DaIsraeli, father of Benjamin, athe choicest Mocha coffee in tiny cups of egg-shell porcelaina. Perhaps Jacob hoped this glamour would rub off on the Angel Coaching Inn (admission: one penny).

But coffee was then still a quite basic thing: fragrant, maybe, but incredibly bitter. It was a matter of one size fits all (and absolutely no caramel syrup). The only faux pas a person could commit in its vicinity was to grimace too vigorously on tasting it, a gaucherie grand ladies were able quickly to conceal with the careful deployment of their fans.

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